On 2026-03-07 Vincent Lefevre <[email protected]> wrote: > On 2026-03-07 17:17:20 +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote: >> On 2026-03-07 07:53:31 +0100, Andreas Metzler wrote: >>> Plus possibly XDG_SESSION_TYPE. The heuristics are a little bit strange
>> If I unset XDG_SESSION_TYPE (which is "x11" here), the problem >> disappears in the case where DISPLAY is unset, i.e. > [...] > I'm wondering why you did not get an abort like me. But after ssh with > X11 forwarding, $XDG_SESSION_TYPE is set to "tty" instead of "x11"[*], > so that this changes the behavior. Hello, Because I have got XDG_SESSION_TYPE=tty since I am not using a graphical display manager like gdm but startx+wmaker. On 2026-03-07 Vincent Lefevre <[email protected]> wrote: >On 2026-03-07 07:53:31 +0100, Andreas Metzler wrote: >> ... I doubt it is possible to open an X11 window if DISPLAY is unset, >> even if XDG_SESSION_TYPE=x11. > I confirm. I think that the fallback to curses occurs too early. > Instead of aborting, pinentry-qt should fall back to curses at > this time. I have googled a little bit and iirc wayland behaves differently, applications fall back to a default compositor if XDG_SESSION_TYPE=wayland but WAYLAND_DISPLAY is unset. The whole thing is also not trivially fixable, neither QT nor FLTK have a direct replacement for gtk_init_check(). cu Andreas -- "You people are noisy," Nia said. I made the gesture of agreement.
